Western European Time
The English expression Western European Time which is translated into French by Western Europe time , is one of the names of the Time zone UTC+0, without shift compared to the universal Time coordinated. It is often shortened in WET . WET is used as standard time by certain countries of Africa and Western Europe during whole or part of the year; the majority of the countries which apply the Summer-time use the Western European Summer Time - UTC+1 - during the corresponding months).
The Western European Time is sometimes, but very improperly, called Greenwich Mean Time , even if this term corresponds more to measurement of time to the meridian line of Greenwich rather than to a time zone. In the alphabetical designation of the time zones, it also bears the name of Zulu Time .
Countries concerned
- the following countries and territories use the WET during all the year:
- Island Grooving plane
- Burkina Faso
- Ivory Coast
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Greenland (area of Danmarkshavn, in the North-East)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iceland
- Liberia
- Mali
- Morocco
- Mauritania
- the Western Sahara
- Island Grey waxbill
- São Divide into volumes-and-Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
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the following countries and territories use the WET during the hour of winter in the northern hemisphere, between last Sunday from October to 1:00 UTC and last Sunday from March to 1:00 UTC:
- the Canaries
- Faroe Islands
- Ireland
- Portugal (metropolitan, and Madeira, not the Azores)
- the United Kingdom